I love the Fallout games. I want them to breed and have dozens, no, hundreds of little Fallout children and gradually every game can be just like them. Because of this, it is with great sadness that I declare Fallout: New Vegas to be an unplayable mess. Important Caveat: I bought this game for the PC. Supposedly, the PC version is the less buggy version of the game. (Although if that is the case, then I cringe for those playing the PS3/360 versions.) But the point is that there are millions of different hardware and software configurations for PCs out there, and just because my own experience with New Vegas has been of a game that is utterly and completely horrible, it doesn't mean that some other lucky JERK out there who has a different PC won't have a really great experience with New Vegas. So, having said all that, here are my personal specs. Windows 7 Ultimate: 64 Bit Edition NVidea GTX 260 (Latest driver.) Intel Core 2 Duo, E8500@3.16 GHZ 4 GB Memory Creative X-FI SB So what's the problem Jim? Well, there are a multitude of glitches, bugs and general annoyances. Whether it is general stuttering, odd frame rate drops out of nowhere, texture popping, etc. if you can imagine it, then chances are that I've experienced it. And I've got a beefy enough system and graphics settings on my game set low enough that I shouldn't be having them, but those aren't what I'm grumpy about. There are two bugs in particular that I have had over and over again that have made me decide to stop playing a Fallout game I've waited over a year for. 1. The game crashes my computer. Note, I did not say the game crashes. I said that the game completely crashes my computer. As in, approximately every 45 minutes my computer TURNS ITSELF OFF while playing this game. It utterly stops working. Note, this is a problem unique to New Vegas. I can plug in other games and play them indefinitely, and depending on level of buggyness I do get crashes to the desktop. This is the only game where I worry that continuing to play it will do irreparable harm to my computer itself. 2. The game's AI doesn't consistently recognize friend from foe. New Vegas is a faction based game. By helping one faction, you tend to tick off another. Sound theory in principle. Sadly, the game randomly decides to have FRIENDLY factions decides to shoot your ass up. It does it often enough to be utterly and completely maddening. One moment I'll be scrolling through a New California Republic compound and then the next, I'm being gunned down from all sides. Not from stealing, not from opening fire on them, for walking down a damned corridor. This game is not playable, at least not for me. Oh, and in conclusion, Damn you Bethesda and Obsidian! I don't know which of you jerks is responsible for ruining a FALLOUT game for me, but damn you both very much.